Essays on Sex Tourism in Thailand
Sex tourism! What is Sex tourism? The first thing which comes to our mind is the red-light areas and destinations like Amsterdam and Thailand. According to The World Tourism Organization, A specialized agency of the United Nations defines sex tourism as ‘trips organized from within the tourism sector, or from outside this sector but using...
Beyond isolated interpersonal dynamics between sex tourists and sex workers, the practices of sex tourism are pervaded by its historical context of structural and global inequalities. These global structures of inequality are reproduced, navigated and, in some cases, subverted by the experiences of sex tourists and sex workers, entailing constant negotiations of power. In this...
It’s thought that sex tourists are provoked by two motivational drives: psychological and physical needs. Two key propositions are addressed (1) The person’s level of perceived modernity relates to the perceived level of personal needs; and (2) The person’s level of perceived personal needs relates to the person’s desire of travel for sexual participation (Tepanon,...
